The year 2010 was a big one for major earthquakes: Haiti (M 7.0), Chile (M 8.8), Turkey (M 6.1), and New Zealand (M 7.1).With so many major earthquakes in a short time, many people began to wonder about the status of the planet.One major author (name withheld for privacy)even got on TV and stated that these earthquakes were related and were triggering each other.Was this author correct? Why or why not?
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